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U.S. Senate candidate Cal Woods visits UNI.

UNI DM dances and fundraises twelve hours for miracle families.

The Panthers host the MVC Indoor Championship.

Panthers secure No. 1 seed in MVC BRIELLE KIEWIET Sports

UNI men’s basketball finished out their regular season by adding two more split wins, claiming the regular-season MVC title and ending the season undefeated in the McLeod. The Panthers defeated the University of Evansville 84-64 in their last home game of the season on Wednesday, Feb. 26 and added a 70-43 road win against Drake University on Saturday, Feb. 29.

UNI’s win over Evansville moved them to a clean 16-0 record at home, the third undefeated home season under head coach Ben Jacobson. The Panthers gained a 46-33 lead at the break after a 7-0 run.

They continued their strong offensive play into the second half to secure the win, going 16-26 from the field.

Sophomore A.J. Green led the Panthers with 21 points, going 8-13 from the field.

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Trae Berhow recorded 16 points and seven rebounds for the game. True freshman Noah Carter tallied 11 points and Austin Phyfe followed with 10.

On Feb. 29, the Panthers

visited the Knapp Center to take on Drake. The Panthers returned home with the 27-point win and secured the No. 1 seed in the MVC tournament. The Purple and Gold came out shooting and

gained a 12-point lead in the first half. They shot 42 percent from the field compared to the Bulldogs 31 percent in the first 20 minutes.

After the break, the Panthers outrebounded the

Bulldogs 44-32 and allowed them only 20 points. They held the home team to 8-27 from the field in the last 20 minutes of the game, securing the double-digit win.

Phyfe led the Panthers with 17 points and 18 rebounds, recording his 9th double-double of the season.

Isaiah Brown and A.J. Green each added 15 points, and Carter followed with 11.

Next, the Panthers will prepare to compete in the MVC Tournament in the Enterprise Center in St. Louis, MO., beginning on Friday, March 6. The last time the Panthers held the No. 1 seed in the MVC Tournament was during the 2009-10 season where they won the championship. Their first game will be at noon on Friday, March 6, with their opponent being the winner of the matchup on Thursday, March 5 between the 8-seeded Drake and the 9-seeded Illinois State.

African American Children and Families Conference held in SEC EMMA STOFFER Staff Writer

On Friday, Feb. 28, the ninth annual African American Children and Families Conference was held from 8 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. in Schindler Education Center. Its theme was “Transforming Communities for the Betterment of the Lives of African American Children and Families.”

The event began with a keynote address from Corey Roberto Lanair Holmes, a Waterloo native now living in Atlanta, Ga. where he serves as a pastoral community leader.

Attendees could then choose from three breakout sessions to attend: a town hall led by Dr. Kingsley Botchway II, a speech from youth keynote speaker De’Carlos Anderson and “Black Girls,” a panel discussion led by

Dr. Tiffany Flowers.

Late morning to early afternoon was filled with multiple breakout sessions separated into a middle/high school track and general track. The middle and high schoolers could choose from five sessions: “It’s Time! Bust Some Moves!

Code your own dance party with Code.org” led by Magda Galloway, Leigh Zeitz, Sarah Bryans-Bongey, Farah Kashef, Sadie Specht and Lindsay Laughlin; “Painting with Chaveevah!” led by Chaveevah Ferguson, “Hip Hop Literacy” led by Dr. Shuaib Meacham, an admissions presentation led

by Juana Hollingsworth and a panel of UNI students and a session on financial literacy led

by Angela Weekley of Veridian Credit Union.

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Senate candidate Woods visits UNI ANNA ALLDREDGE Staff Writer

On Thursday, Feb. 27 at 7 p.m., the Northern Iowa Democrats held a roundtable with U.S. Senate candidate Cal Woods in Maucker Union.

Woods is running as one of the Democratic challengers to U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), who will be up for reelection this fall.

Woods is a Navy veteran, former news reporter and current realtor. After his time in the Navy, he graduated from the University of Iowa in journalism. His decision to run for Senate stemmed from the vulnerability of Joni Ernst’s Senate seat, this being her first time up for reelection, as well as the lack of obvious choices for the Democratic ticket, according to Woods.

During the event, Woods touched on three major politi-

cal issues the United States is currently facing and how he would be a flexible and cooperative player in the Senate for Iowa. First, he discussed inefficient healthcare systems and how they are currently benefitting big pharmaceutical and insurance companies. He then touched on the climate crisis, as well as the ideological roots of our nation’s leadership.

“Right now, we have a president who’s capitalizing on our fears,” Woods said. He discussed how current leadership in this country promotes racism, bigotry and intolerance, and how the political environment needs to drastically change in the coming years.

He also believes a large purpose of the Senate is to hold the executive branch accountable.

“Our United States Senate under the leadership of Mitch McConnell and the dutiful

[conformity] of our junior Senator from Iowa, Joni Ernst, has done nearly nothing to keep this president in check,” Woods said.

Another big portion of Woods’ platform stems from the climate crisis the world is facing and will continue to face in the coming years. He believes in the inevitability of large numbers of climate refugees, especially from islander nations and stressed the need to prepare for the future.

“There are solutions out there,” Woods said. “We just have to find the political will to send the right people to Washington.”

After speaking, Woods opened up the discussion to questions from attendees. He fielded questions about everything from agriculture’s impact on climate change to immigration and refugee protection to stigmatization of mental

health.

On the subject of agriculture and climate, he emphasized the importance of considering farmers as allies, not as perpetrators of poor environmental practices.

“For a few pennies a meal, we can raise enough money to subsidize farmers to plant cover crops, buffer strips and greenways along our rivers,” Woods said.

As for mental health practices, Woods would advocate for the destigmatization of mental health services, considering it “no different than physical health.” He also proposed access to mental health services for currently incarcerated individuals, as it would result in rehabilitation for many.

Woods concluded the evening by thanking the NI Democrats and reminding them of the primary which will take place on June 2, 2020.

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Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate Cal Woods visited UNI on Thursday, Feb. 27 in Maucker Union to discuss his platform with students. Woods is challenging current U.S. Senator Joni Ernst.

Speaker discusses binge eating, perseverance LAUREN MCGUILL Staff Writer

On Tuesday, Feb. 25, in the Old Central Ballroom in Maucker Union, author Kara Whitely gave a presentation on binge eating. Whitely, who has written two books, shared her struggles with binge eating disorder and how she persevered and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro three times.

The presentation was a part of Eating Disorder Awareness Week. Whitely visited the University of Iowa and Iowa State University along with UNI. According to Whitely, binge eating is the most common eating disorder in America, yet it is the least talked about. She said more Americans suffer from binge eating than anorexia and buli-

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Author and eating disorder awareness speaker Kara Whitely gave a presentation on Tuesday, Feb. 25, discussing how she overcame binge eating disorder to become a successful mountain climber.

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Whitely shared her personal experiences with binge eating, which began when she was nine years old as a way to cope with her parents’ fighting and eventual divorce.

“It wasn’t like those stereotypical pictures of a person with piles of hamburgers,” she said. “It was things like walnuts. The sound of chewing drowned out the sounds of the screaming. It drowned out that feeling that my body was going to drop out.”

Whitely explained that binge eating is not necessarily about food itself, but rather a coping mechanism for a bigger problem. She suffered from anxiety and depression and was also sexually assaulted at the age of 12. Food helped Whitley through every painful experience of her life, and instead of dealing with the problems and finding positive coping mechanisms, she turned to food.

Whitley said that she was

waiting for happiness to just come to her, but after years of it never arriving, she decided to go out and find it. She started hiking small trails in Vermont and slowly moved her way up to larger and tougher trails. Hiking offered a new coping mechanism and also helped her lose weight.

She eventually made her way up to Camel’s Peak, which is the second highest peak in Vermont. Yet even though she was making progress, Whitely felt like there was something missing from her journey. So she set herself an end goal: to climb Mount Kilimanjaro.

Through perseverance, dedication and a lot of hard work, Whitley climbed the mountain. Not only did she successfully complete her goal, but she ended up climbing it three times. Whitley wanted to share her stories of success with others, to let them know they’re not alone and they too can overcome

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binge eating and other struggles they face. She has two books, “Gorge: My Journey Up Kilimanjaro at 300 Pounds” and “The Weight of Being: How I Satisfied My Hunger for Happiness.”

“Gorge” is currently being made into a movie by Amazon and will star “This is Us” actress Chrissy Metz. It will begin filming next year and most likely go into production the following year.

Reagan Brown, a senior communication major with marketing and entrepreneurship minors, attended the presentation and loved it.

“I’ve been working with the student health clinic here at campus to overcome my struggles with binge eating disorder,” Brown said. “I think it’s really cool how much she’s been able to overcome and I feel like it’s something I really needed to hear. It’s nice to hear about people who have some of the same struggles as me.”

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Democrats should not divide the vote ADDI SEYBERT

Opinion Columnist

Lately in left-wing politics, there has been a lot of discourse over which candidate would make the best nominee. Disagreement is great when it comes to politics; it is what makes the country function. There has to be some disagreement, or policies would always remain stagnant. There would be no push to move certain issues to the forefront or push others to the background. However, typical discourse has led to avid disagreement and has become toxic hostility, particularly in the case of “Bernie Bros” versus “Warren Stans.”

These groups are constantly duking it out with one another on social media, frequently resulting in members of the opposing group being dubbed “snakes” or “liars.” Insults like “racist” and “sexist” have even been thrown around. Frankly, both of these groups have become so blindly spiteful

of the other that they fail to recognize the dangers of their words and actions. That being said, one of the biggest mistakes one can make in the upcoming 2020 election is to divide the vote.

Historically, if one candidate got the nomination over another, people who favored the losing candidate would go to the polls and write the name of their candidate instead of voting for the nominee. For example, the election of 1912 was split when Teddy Roosevelt created the Bull Moose Party in order to run on his own ticket. This caused the party to divide, thus resulting in the election of Democrat Woodrow Wilson. If the vote was not divided, the Republican Party could conceivably have won the presidency that year. More recently, in the 2016 election, a number of voters wrote other candidates’ names on the ticket instead of nominee Hillary Clinton’s. Frustratingly, while Hillary still won the popu-

lar vote, the electoral college chose Trump. They did so due to division from third party votes and write-ins, causing the electoral college to allocate fewer delegates to Hillary. If the write-ins and third-party votes had not gotten in the way, the electoral college could have given Hillary more delegates. But, they did, which ultimately led to a Trump presidency.

Even worse, some people felt that their candidate should have won the nomination and to spite the system, they decided not to vote at all. Ignoring the civic duty of voting is not “sticking it to the man” or “proving a point;” it is just making it easier for the opposing party to clinch the victory. If half of Democrats vote for their nominee and the other half neglect the polls while all Republicans vote for Trump, Trump will be a shoein for re-election.

Democrats are all united under a common goal: to remove Trump from the pres-

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idency and try to undo the damage that he has done. We are all on the same side. That being said, why would it make sense to divide ourselves and prevent one of our own candidates from holding office?

Disagreement is understandable, but if we want even a chance at winning this fight, we cannot divide the vote.

Regardless of who you were rooting for in the cau-

cuses, it is imperative that the vote not be divided. The only thing that matters is that once a candidate is chosen for the Democratic nomination, people must show up and vote for the chosen nominee, whether they still like their candidate better or not. We must not divide the Democratic vote, or another four years of ridiculous headlines and racist remarks are ahead.

What is the XFL and why is it destined to fail?

NICHOLAS SCHINDLER Opinion Columnist

We now have four weeks in the books for the XFL and there is a lot to be encouraged by. Put the quality of play aside, the new rules and the unbelievable on-field access to players for just a minute, which are all very interesting. I’m

sure many of you have one big question; what is the XFL? Well, to start off, the XFL is a professional football league that originated in 2001 which only lasted one year and is making a comeback. The purpose of this league is to offer more football for the masses because, in America, we are suckers for some good profes-

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sional football. This can also provide the NFL a place to find players that may not have been seen as well in college and allow them to make a name for themselves and potentially get a shot to play in the NFL. They are in no way trying to compete with the NFL; leagues like this have been tried before and at the end of the day they have not turned out to be very successful.

Now, let’s analyze what has made the XFL successful for its first four weeks. The promises of the XFL were faster and simpler play versus the NFL. They have lived up to those two promises, but I think the games are not as exciting as they could be. But first let’s talk about the positives.

With attendance, the numbers have been pretty good at all the games for these first four weeks. Now, obviously they are not filling the second deck of stadiums, but for the most recent game in St. Louis the

dome was loud and it sounded cool on TV which is encouraging. The biggest problem of all these leagues aside from money is TV ratings. The first weekend posted an impressive 3.12 million people watching, which is quite good, but now after its fourth week, the number has been cut in half to 1.61 million. This is all before we get into the NCAA conference tournaments, March Madness, the NFL draft, NBA playoffs and even baseball. The ratings will only continue to slowly fall with these other sports on TV. There are new rules: one expands the extra point to be a one, two or three-point conversion, another changes the rules for overtime and many others make small quirks to the game of football that we all grew up with. There is also an unbelievable amount of access that we get as an audience to the XFL. Watching TV, you get to listen in on the coach talking to his quarterback making

the play call and can hear the replay officials go through why they made the call live on air.

We even get interviewers on the field asking players questions after they throw a touchdown, get a sack or, in Matt McGloin’s case, why he was benched.

All of these changes and new rules are really cool, don’t get me wrong, but my big question is; does greater access to the players and some quirky new rules equal success of a new league? I think not. The play is on par with upper level colleges and NFL but it isn’t anything special. I find it hard to believe that typical NFL fans are going to get into players that they mostly don’t know and teams that they have no loyalty to or rich history of rooting for. While I sound skeptical of this formula working, I am a football fan and I am optimistic and rooting for the XFL to succeed. But, I think it is destined to fail.

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‘MountainFilm’ event to be held ALEX JOHNSON Staff Writer

On Friday, March 6, the University of Northern Iowa’s Film Appreciation Club, Philosophy Club and Green Project will co-host a film festival called MountainFilm On Tour.

This event will be held in Kamerick Art Building Room 111 and is free to the public.

Representatives from MountainFilm will visit UNI and allow screenings of two and half hours of their short films, which run about fifteen minutes each. Hunter Friesen, junior accounting major at UNI and Film Appreciation Club President, said “[MountainFilm On Tour is] a company based in Telluride, Colorado and they have [...] an annual film festival there [...] and then after that, they go on the road and take all those films and they just go around the country and [UNI is] going to be one of those spots.”

Each of the MountainFilm short films originates from different cultures and countries across the globe.

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from [...] Nepal. It’s about this guy who climbs Mount Everest [...] Some are from Spain and quite a bit are from America,” Friesen said.

According to Friesen, the films each serve as a part of a larger narrative about how humans interact with the environment, whether that be through sports, hiking or culture.

Friesen explained that audience members learn about “different people, different areas around the world and how they interact with the environment and how the environment interacts with us.”

“You can [...] see all these different things you just didn’t think about either.

Like, there’s this one we’re going to do; it’s about this boy in Tibet. He is super interested in hockey but Tibet has no hockey, so it’s just his journey of playing hockey in Tibet and how he can use the environment around the mountains to help play it,” he said.

Due to how the films’ focus on the relationship between humans and our environment, UNI’s Film Appreciation Club teamed

‘So You Want to Help People?’

SARA QUALLEY

Staff Writer

UNI students and faculty will host an event called “So You Want to Help People?” on Tuesday, March 3.

“Faculty and seniors from psychology, social work and family services will discuss the similarities and differ-

ences between the areas and minors and certificates that will best fit your career path.

Refreshments will be served,” according to a post on the UNI Calendar of Events.

The event will take place at 5:00 p.m. in Old Central Ballroom A in the Maucker Union.

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UNI alum and filmmaker Brendon Leonard mingles with attendees of 2019’s MountainFilm On Tour at UNI.

up with Philosophy Club and Green Project. Last year, they worked together to bring MountainFilm On Tour to UNI for the Cedar Falls community to experience MountainFilm.

This will be the second time MountainFilm On Tour has visited UNI. According to Friesen, nearly 100 people turned up for MountainFilm On Tour in 2019. Due to last year’s high turn out, Film Appreciation

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The general track had ten different breakout sessions including: “Reflections of a Transformational Educator: Education as Liberation Theology,” led by Dr. Louis Hilton, “Iowa and the School to Prison Pipeline,” led by Dr. Stephanie Jones, Sarah Beisner and Sophie Shea, “Is My Syllabus Diverse Enough?” led by Dr. Taraneh Matloob Haghanikar, “Disproportionality of Families in the Child Welfare System,” led by Felicia Carter, “Critical Race Theory in Education: A Black Mother’s Narrative on Special Education,” led by Joyce Levingston, “Teaching and Learning About Africa through Hip-Hop and Rap Music,” led by Dr. PierreDamien Mvuyekure, “Ghosts of Jim Crow and Its Impact on Black Families in the Metroplex,” led by Abraham Funchess, “Youth Empowerment: Vision book to purpose, wellness, success and happiness,” led by Dr. Theodora Jn Baptiste, and a discussion of the We Believe Summer Academy with Stephanie Shavers, Gina Weekley and Ty Allan Jackson, who spoke as the guest author and illustrator.

Dr. Theodora Jn Baptiste

Club, Philosophy Club and Green Project decided to host MountainFilm again this year.

“It’s just a really fun time.

You get to see all these stories from different walks of life. [...] People think documentaries sometimes are a little boring, but these are all adventurous ones. I know there’s skiing; there’s one about mountain biking, motorcycles and stuff. It’s [...] very interesting and

exciting stuff but you also learn something as well. [...]

You get to socialize with people. [...] It’s just a fun [series of] movies to watch,” Friesen said.

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led a breakout session about youth empowerment focusing on creating a vision for the future, a message she believes is something that the target audience needs to hear.

“It’s along my vision to encourage goal-setting. Young adults need goals to move forward, and it’s what the target audience needs to hear. It’s my passion to share that,” Jn Baptiste said.

A youth dance performance led by Reverend Marvin Jenkins followed the afternoon breakout sessions before the start of two specialized panels. For the youth track, a session about bullying was led by Dr. Theodora Pinnock and the general track held a panel discussion on mental health with moderator Keyah Levy and panelists Juana Hollingsworth, M.S.W., Chatara Mabry, L.M.S.W. and Shantila Caston, L.M.S.W. The final session to end the conference was a community forum on mental health led by Dr. Theodora Pinnock.

Between sessions, those in attendance were encouraged to visit the exhibitions sitting in the G.R.E.A.T. room of Schindler Education Center.

UNI Admissions, People’s Community Health Clinic, the KBBG FM radio station, Amani, Estella’s Stop and Shop, Val’s Jewelry, World’s Window and University Book and Supply set up booths.

Brianna Lyons, a sophomore Early Childhood Education major, enjoyed the exhibitions’ atmosphere. “It’s amazing. There are Waterloo vendors here and it’s a lot of culture, which is nice to see on campus,” she said.

This year’s theme was “Transforming Communities for the Betterment of the Lives of African American Children and Families.” According to the conference’s website, this theme was meant to encourage the action of speaking up for others, especially those who cannot.

“We are reminded that we must be the voices for those who can not, will not or shall not stand up and speak for themselves,” the website for the event states.

The website’s statements also draws on the importance of the conference’s history by providing its original mission to increase diversity.

“The College of Education started this conference 9 years ago with hopes of promoting diversity and better understanding among all people as we strive to help children attain positive goals in life through our educational mission.”

The ninth annual African American Children and Families Conference wrapped up at 4 p.m. and also helped signify the end of Black History Month.

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Panther PORTRAIT: dance marathon CECILIA MITCHELL

Campus Life Editor

On Saturday, Feb. 29, the ninth annual UNI Dance Marathon (UNI DM) “Big Event” was held in Maucker Union. According to a post on UNI DM’s “Miracle Blog” by Hannah Stater, a senior Communication and Interactive Digital studies major and director of marketing for UNI DM, “Over 650 University of Northern Iowa students stood on their feet for 12 straight hours, dancing with the kids and fundraising for the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s

Hospital.”

Dance Marathon is the largest student organization on UNI’s campus. Since 2012, the organization has raised over $3.1 million for the Stead Family Children’s Hospital.

This year, students raised $522,136.09. Once the fundraising total was announced, Nathan and Beth Tross of Highland Park, Ill., donated matching funds to the hospital.

“Together, UNI Dance Marathon and the Tross Family are donating $1,044,272 to fund pediatric epilepsy research,” Stater wrote.

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Regan Rowenhorst, 2020 UNI Dance Marathon’s Director of Morale, gives a cheer during the Big Event, held on Saturday, Feb. 29.

Women’s History Month events coming up at UNI CECILIA MITCHELL

Campus Life Editor

Throughout the month of March, many events will be held on campus in observance of Women’s History Month.

This week, festivities begin with this month’s Sexuality, Women and Gender (SWAG) forum: “Jackie and Jill Robinson: Women and the Need to Be Better at Politics.” This forum will be held on Monday, March 2 in the Rod Library ScholarSpace at noon.

On Tuesday, March 3, the Women’s History Month Kickoff and Art Expo will

be held from 6:30-9 p.m. in the Center for Multicultural Education (CME) room 109.

Concurrently, a screening of the Iowa PBS documentary on Carrie Chapman Catt will take place from 7-9 p.m. in Sabin Hall, Room 002. A panel discussion will follow the screening.

On Thursday, March 5, Col. Beth Behn (Chief of Staff, Army Sustainment Command) will deliver a lecture titled, “A Rising Tide: The Final Victorious Wave of the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1916-1920” at 6 p.m. in Sabin 002.

On Friday, March 6, the Philosophy and Religion

50th Anniversary lecture will be held in Seerley Hall, Room 115. Tracy Bonfitto, Curator of Art at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, will present a lecture titled, “A Visible Scar: Loss and Memory in the Works of Zarina Hashmi and Rummana Hussein.”

Next week, Women’s History Month events continue with Women in Red: Wikipedia Editathon in Rod Library from 6-9 p.m. and Women’s History Month Bingo Night in Curris Business Building 003 from 6-7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 10.

On Wednesday, March 11 at 7 p.m., Catherine Palczewski of the communication studies department will present the lecture “Bodies that Argue: How Suffragists Constituted White Women’s Citizenship During the 1919 Prison Special Tour,” the latest installment of the Phi Alpha Theta lecture series, in Seerley Hall, Room 120.

After spring break, Women’s History Month events will continue with “Women of War: Stories of Veteran Women,” presented from 8-9 p.m. on Tuesday, March 24 in CME 109.

On Wednesday, March

25, Women’s History Month Movie Night will be held in Curris Business Building, Room 003, from 6:30-8 p.m. RodCon keynote speaker Gabby Rivera will present a lecture titled, “Inspiring Radical Creativity; Empowering Young, Diverse Voices to Tell Their Own Stories” in the Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts Center at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 26.

UNI’s Women’s History Month events will conclude on Friday, March 27 with the Women of Excellence event, which will be held in the Commons from 3-5 p.m.

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Panthers complete day one of MVC tourney PATRICK HANSEN

Sports Writer

The indoor track and field conference championships have officially come and gone through the UNI-Dome this past weekend, as the men and women of UNI gave it

their all on their home turf.

On day one of the championships, six Panthers were able to place in the top three, with one first place on the day, and 12 other Panthers clinched a finals berth.

For the men’s team, six advanced to the finals in five

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different events. In the 60 meter dash, Isaiah Trousil (6.80), Tayshaun Cooper (6.80) and Eli Hicks (6.91) all qualified for the finals.

Jack Sumners (8.17) qualified for the 60-meter hurdles final. Isaiah Trousil (21.88), Tayshaun Cooper (22.00) and Eli Hicks (22.26) all qualified a second time for the 200-meter dash. To round out the Panther men who qualified were Wal Khat (1:54.06) in the 800-meter and the mile from CJ May (4:20.41).

On the women’s side, another six were advanced in three events with 60-meter hurdles from Hannah Schau (8.73) and Megan Hudson (8.78). Following them are the 200-meter dash qualifiers

with Taylor Raines (25.33) and Tyler Gray (25.35) and also the 800-meter with Dianna Slight (2:16.65) and Katie Nimrod (2:18.36).

Six additional athletes received all-conference honors through the first day of competition. Chase Van Sant and Jack Sumners placed second and third, respectively, in the men’s long jump.

Kyler Yodts and Darius King placed second and third in the men’s weight throw, respectivley. Isabelle Holtzen placed third in the women’s pole vault, and Cam Bauer also placed third, in the men’s pole vault.

At the end of day one, the men’s team led the conference in points with 40.5 points, just .5 over second

place, Illinois State. On the women’s side, the Panthers finished day one with 30.5 points, resulting in third place.

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Panthers split Valpo, Loyola over the weekend NICHOLAS SCHINDLER Sports Writer

Coming off a quality conference win at home against Bradley last Saturday, the UNI women’s basketball team hit the road for two straight games last weekend, losing to Valparaiso University by the score of 69-72 on Thursday and beating Loyola-Chicago 73-70 on Sunday.

The Panthers got out to a strong start against Valpo, leading at halftime by the score of 39-35. After three quarters, the game was tied at 54. Starting the fourth, the Crusaders went on a 10-2 run, which proved to be too much to overcome for a UNI comeback. Northern Iowa ended

up losing by three points with a last second three pointer being swatted away, giving UNI their eleventh loss of the season. This was a hard fought basketball game; there were 15 lead changes and ten ties throughout the game.

Junior Karli Rucker led the Panthers with 20 points and forward Bre Grunnels lead the way with seven total rebounds.

On Sunday, the Panthers hit the road again, this time against Loyola-Chicago and picked up their 17th win of the season by the score of 73-70. The win moves Northern Iowa to 9-8 in the Missouri Valley Conference and 17-11 overall on the season. UNI was up by seven

points at halftime and never looked back; they only trailed only for a little over one minute in the entire game. The Panthers shot an impressive 53% from the floor on Sunday. Leading the Panthers in scoring was Karli Rucker with 24 points.

Rucker is now the 25th member of the 1,000 point club for UNI. UNI will play its last conference game at home against the 21-7 Drake Bulldogs this Friday at 6:30 p.m. in McLeod.

It is senior night for the Panthers, as seniors Rose Simon-Ressler, Kristina Cavey, Heidi Hillyard and Abby Gerrits will be honored their last collegiate game in the McLeod Center.

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Redshirt Junior forward Megan Maahs attempts a shot. She had 10 points and 8 rebounds against Valparaiso on Friday, and 12 points to go along with 6 rebounds Sunday against Loyola-Chicago.

SOFTBALL

Panthers finish with 2-3 record in Shamrock Classic COLIN HORNING

Sports Editor

TONI FORTMANN/Northern Iowan

After nearly two weeks since their last set of games, the UNI softball team traveled down to Conway, Ar., for a weekend series against Stephen F. Austin University, Belmont University, Central Arkansas University and the University of Louisiana at Monroe. The Panther women came off a tough slate of games two weeks prior in which they dropped four out of five games. This past weekend proved to be a back-and-forth appeal for Northern Iowa, as they ended the weekend going 2-3.

The first game of the series saw the Panthers take

on the Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks on Feb. 28.

This game wound up to be a rather forgettable one for UNI, as they were pummeled with 13 runs in five innings while being held to only one hit for the entire contest.

The Jacks spotted six runs in their half of the fifth inning, leading the game to be ended in a mercy rule.

The Panther women were able to bounce back in a big way on Saturday morning, as they were able to take down Belmont University by a score of 9-1 the next day. UNI shortstop Sammy Bunch led the team with four runs batted in for the contest, all of which game off her grand slam home run in the top of the sixth inning.

The inning started with Northern Iowa holding onto a 3-1 lead, but the Panther bats would explode for six total runs in the frame and put away Belmont for the game.

UNI would get a second chance against Stephen F. Austin on Saturday evening, but the Lumberjacks would again prove to be too much for the Panthers to handle. SFA scored seven unanswered runs through six innings while holding UNI to just five hits. The Panthers would scratch across a run in their half of the sixth on a bases-loaded walk, but their rally would be shut down before any more damage could be done.

Sunday morning saw the

Panther women once again in action, this time against the Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks. The story of this game was the errors committed by both teams, as UNI allowed two errors for the game, while ULM committed four. Three of the Panthers’ runs were either scored off of an error committed by the Warhawks or the runner who scored reached base by way of an error.

The Panthers are now 6-10 overall on the season.

They will next play in the Northern Colorado tournament in Greeley, Co., from Mar. 6-8 against opponents Nebraska-Omaha, Utah Valley, and Northern Colorado.

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